virtualbox 5.2: The host-only adapter we just created is not visible.

[KowalczykBartek]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one): BUG REPORT

Please provide the following details:

Environment:

Minikube version (use minikube version):

• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): macOS Hight Sierra 10.13.5
• VM Driver : "DriverName": "virtualbox"
• ISO version : "Boot2DockerURL": "file:///Users/i316755/.minikube/cache/iso/minikube-v0.28.0.iso"
• Install tools:
  VBoxManage --version : 5.2.12r122591
• Others:
  The above can be generated in one go with the following commands (can be copied and pasted directly into your terminal):

What happened:
error occurred

What you expected to happen:
minikube starts.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Install minikube and start.

Output of minikube logs (if applicable):

minikube start                                                 
Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
Downloading Minikube ISO
 153.08 MB / 153.08 MB [============================================] 100.00% 0s
E0624 19:52:09.221837   34682 start.go:168] Error starting host: Error creating host: Error executing step: Creating VM.
: Error setting up host only network on machine start: The host-only adapter we just created is not visible. This is a well known VirtualBox bug. You might want to uninstall it and reinstall at least version 5.0.12 that is is supposed to fix this issue.

 Retrying.
E0624 19:52:09.222559   34682 start.go:174] Error starting host:  Error creating host: Error executing step: Creating VM.
: Error setting up host only network on machine start: The host-only adapter we just created is not visible. This is a well known VirtualBox bug. You might want to uninstall it and reinstall at least version 5.0.12 that is is supposed to fix this issue
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Anything else do we need to know:
happens on previous versions as well.

[dlorenc]

See here for some more context: docker/machine#4066

Did you recently upgrade your virtualbox installation? It's possible you might need to uninstall/reinstall.

[KowalczykBartek]

hmm, but docker works like a charm :)

Did you recently upgrade your virtualbox installation? It's possible you might need to uninstall/reinstall.

I installed virtualbox from scratch - so I just installed newest version, I will try to downgrade.

[KowalczykBartek]

same with 5.2.8

[KowalczykBartek]

I was able to run newest of minikube (on OSX) with following config

• OSX version : Hight Sierra 10.13.5
• VirtualBox (Version 5.2.18)

[YongX]

I was able to run newest of minikube (on OSX) with following config

• OSX version : Hight Sierra 10.13.5
• VirtualBox (Version 5.2.18)

this works for me. I downgrade from 5.2.20 to 5.2.18

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